Good morning, its wednesday, september 20th. We are following a number of stories. President trump was America First se u. N. And steps up his warnings to north korea meanwhile, republican as far as see daylight on Health Care Reform. Some gop governors arent so sure about that. The Russian Investigation rolls on with new details on whos paying the president s legal bills but first, two Natural Disasters unfolding in real time. Rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday and Hurricane Maria about to slam directly into puerto rico. Well go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storms latest track. Bill. Power knocked out. Roof damage done, structural damages beginning as the strongest weekends are moving on shore in puerto rico. Overnight, can you see the storm, 124mileperhour winds in st. Croix. Now the storm is about to make
landfall. Lets get into the zoomed in radar. You see san juan to the north
president biden is. two term republican governor. i think in the republican party of the past, he would have really been a formidable opponent or contrast to president biden. but if this republican party, that sort of seems to be defined by bomb bast, it seems like he s going to have a difficult time. but certainly his team thinks there is a viable path and that there that the trump party is an anomaly and that he isn t the anomaly, he is the representative of the brand. and there is still a long ways to go here. up next for us, a debt default is looming. president biden and kevin mccarthy at an impasse. but who will blink first? that is coming up.
self-control to messaging. so i think we have some great candidates that will be very successful competitive as a nominee. but i don t think the american people want this bomb bast behavior where doing all of the name calling and fact is i m sick of it myself too. so i m with the middle on that. i hear you. well we ll take some nebraska nice then. if trump were the candidate, if he wins out, in a prime would you still support him? you know, i m not inclined to say that yet. i think we should go through the primary and see how people conduct themselves and who is the opponent. right now i don t think it is not good nor the country and it is too divisive. it is not good for party. in the midterm years you could lose 50, 60 seats and that is what we could do in 2026 if he was our president. so i think we ve already had lossed in 2018, 2020, 2022, we
discussing was whether the president would tell someone to lie under oath. of course he would. and that is very different from all the things that we ve accused of president of, sometimes justifiably, in the last couple of years. all right, fair enough. but here s what happens. so, this is the main concern, christine. i want to get a sense from both of you about this. this has been dismissed by the president and his supporters as not worthy of probity. there s no reason to be looking at this. i agree. but why do they keep lying about it, christine? that s what i don t get. to rick s point, we don t know that the president lied about any of this to people who it matters. those questions were written for a reason. they were lawyered up and doctored for a reason, and by the way, i don t begrudge that. it would be silly to do it any other way, certainly given the disposition towards the modeasity of this president. he d be foolish to do it any other way. his initial bomb bast was
but why do they keep lying about it, christine? that s what i don t get. to rick s point, we don t know that the president lied about any of this to people who it matters. those questions were written for a reason. they were lawyered up and doctored for a reason, and by the way, i don t begrudge that. it would be silly to do it any other way, certainly given the disposition towards the modeasity of this president. he d be foolish to do it any other way. his initial bomb bast was just that i m going to sit down man to man with mueller. he was never going to do it. he wouldn t do it in civil suits nevertheless something like this nor should he have. that s up to who you are and your confidence in your varity and he didn t have it, and that s okay. he did it like most would. i wouldn t have been surprised if he pleaded the fifth if it came down to a subpoena contest, then he would have felt differently about that than his bombast has suggested. but you re still left with a funda